"This morning I felt a bit weak and tired but I said to myself, 'it's not the day to save third place overall, it's time to win this championship again'.

"I was surprised at how well it worked out in the first race by winning it but it was really tough competition."

In the men's Hansa 303, Cichoki was in superb form once again as he won all three races to clinch his second consecutive world title in style.

The Polish sailor ended on nine points, 11 in front of Australia's Christopher Symonds, who took silver.

Del Reino came into the final day's racing in the women's Hansa 303 fleet as the one to beat and she ensured she retained pole position by posting results of first, third and first on her way to the gold medal.

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Since joining insidethegames.biz, in 2015 Liam Morgan has covered a variety of international multi-sport events and conferences, including the Baku 2015 European Games, the Lillehammer 2016 Winter Youth Olympics, the 2015 Pacific Games in Port Moresby and the 2015 Commonwealth Youth Games in Samoa. He has also reported from the FIFA Extraordinary Elective Congress in Zurich. He graduated from Southampton Solent University in 2014 with a BA First Class honours degree in Sports Journalism.

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